Protest songs are of their nature tied to immediate ... The most durable of this is probably post-’60s album-oriented soul music, which saw artists like Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, War ...

Campbell said that political music has existed as far back as the French Revolution, but mostly came into popularity in the '60s with protest songs about the Vietnam War. He was in college during this ...

Before he starts to sing, a bootleg recording catches his disclaimer, “This here ain't no protest song or anything like that, 'cause I don't write no protest songs.” A few months later ...

Social media are currently inundated with clips from protests at universities ... bled into the early ’70s when this song was written. It is that spirit of the ’60s that seems to be animating ...